Mayor de Blasio rolled out fast new ferryboats with grand fanfare Monday — a live band, a bottle of faux bubbly cracked on the railing, water-spraying fireboats, a media cruise with views of the Statue of Liberty and plenty of rhetoric.

“This is going to be a new day for our city,” de Blasio said at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park after an inaugural ride there from the World Financial Center terminal.

The service, now dubbed NYC Ferry, will cost $2.75, the same price as a MetroCard fare, and will start on May 1 — when existing East River ferry routes will see prices drop from $4 to $2.75.

The service, now dubbed NYC Ferry, will cost $2.75, the same price as a MetroCard fare, and will start on May 1 — when existing East River ferry routes will see prices drop from $4 to $2.75.

Mayor de Blasio rolled out fast new ferryboats with grand fanfare Monday.

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New routes include trips to Rockaway, South Brooklyn and Astoria in 2017. Rather than select bids from companies to use existing boats, the city contracted with Hornblower for brand new vessels that cost $4 million each.